North Carolina is a state full of biodiversity, and snakes are no exception. Its diverse environments, from the mountains in ...

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...

Brad Hughes wanted more snakes for the collection of venomous serpents he keeps in a bedroom at his home in Spruce Pine, N.C., a mountain community near Asheville. So he spent Saturday morning in the ...

Two venomous snakes, the desert-dwelling Sidewinder and the African Black Mamba, showcase remarkable evolutionary adaptations ...

An Australian snake wrangler responded to a Queensland home to capture a laundry basket intruder that turned out to be one of ...

Advanced video techniques reveal exactly how snake bites work and show various snake species have evolved very different strategies.

A pair of reptile wranglers in Australia came to the rescue of a yellow-tailed whip snake that found its way into a ...

Spring marks the busiest time of year for the Oklahoma Poison Center, with spikes in exposure to all kinds of venomous or toxic animals and plants. The Oklahoma Poison Center and the University of ...

Snakes are smarter than most give them credit for and a new study published in the ecoevorix journal only reinforces that. What they found was Amazonian ...